On the application of Social Internet of Things with Fog Computing: A new Paradigm for Traffic Information Sharing System

According to the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), the current high speed of urbanization will equally bring rise in the challenges related to urban mobility in future. Thus, updating real-time traffic and road information is quite essential for limiting road accidents, enhance public and traffic safety. Most of the past research works in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) provided advanced solutions for monitoring road traffic automatically. However, most of these systems overall efficiency depends on deployment of equipment such as actuators and sensors which can be costly. Beside cost factor, its coverage and performance might also be limited on cities which lacks proper and infrastructures to adapt with them. The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm offers the promise to support innovative applications and services for smart cities and can even help those lagging cities to smarter and street safer. With this core point, this paper proposes a novel Internet of Things (IoT) based Traffic Information Sharing System (TISS) architecture. The proposed architecture utilizes Social Internet of Things (SIoT) alongside with Fog Computing (FC) to provide with efficient traffic information sharing and dissemination for minimizing road accidents, providing street and surrounding awareness.